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Michal Schmidt authored
When running RHEL6 userspace on a current upstream kernel, "ip link" fails to show VF information. The reason is a kernel<->userspace API change introduced by commit 88c5b5ce ("rtnetlink: Call nlmsg_parse() with correct header length"), after which the kernel does not see iproute2's IFLA_EXT_MASK attribute in the netlink request. iproute2 adjusted for the API change in its commit 63338dca4513 ("libnetlink: Use ifinfomsg instead of rtgenmsg in rtnl_wilddump_req_filter"). The problem has been noticed before: http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=136692296022182&w=2 (Subject: Re: getting VF link info seems to be broken in 3.9-rc8) We can do better than tell those with old userspace to upgrade. We can recognize the old iproute2 in the kernel by checking the netlink message length. Even when including the IFLA_EXT_MASK attribute, its netlink message is shorter than struct ifinfomsg. With this patch "ip link" shows VF information in both old and new iproute2 versions. Signed-off-by:
Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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